serving elsewhere to join their respective regiments. Major-General Hancock will he directed to send to your command all officers and men that belong to it, and that are now serving in the Middle Military Division.

T. S. BOWERS,

Assistant Adjutant-General.

JAS. W. FORSYTH,

Brevet Major-General and Chief of Staff.

HDQRS. THIRD BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION, CAVALRY,
Petersburg, May 11, 1865.

J. C. KELTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

The Second Brigade, Colonel Young commanding, composed of the Fourth, Eighth, Sixteenth, and Twenty-first Pennsylvania Regiments, went to Lynchburg.

C. H. SMITH,

Brevet Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. THIRD BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION, CAVALRY,
May 11, 1865.

J. C. KELTON,

Assistant Adjutant-General:

Four regiments (First Maine, Second New York Mounted Rifles, and Sixth and Thirteenth Ohio), about 1,000 mounted men in all, constitute this command; no battery.

C. H. SMITH,

Brevet Brigadier-General, Commanding.

HDQRS. MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
In the Field, Fredericksburg, Va., May 11, 1865.

Colonel SUMNER,

Commanding, &c., Fredericksburg:

COLONEL: When passing Spotsylvania Court-House, it was learned that a large number of bodies of our troops, killed there about a year since, were still unburied, and General Sherman made an agreement with a Mr. Sanford, a citizen there, to make a proper interment of the bodies, and gave an order on our commissaries for three barrels flour and two barrels pork, as payment to Mr. Sanford for his work. It seems, however, that the commissary had not supplies, more than also lately needed to make our march, and could not recall the stores from the troops. General Sherman advises you to make a similar agreement with Mr. Sanford, who will convey this to you, and is anxious to fulfill his agreement.

I am, with respect,

L. M. DAYTON,

Major and Assistant Adjutant-General.

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